Unshackle Your Team’s Creativity
Have you ever wished for more input, insights, and ideas from the employees on your team? Especially when our businesses are not performing as well as we’d like, we really need our teammates’ [...]
Think Like an Explorer
When I was sixteen, I went on a 2-week horseback trip in the Bighorn mountains of Wyoming. Each morning, we were given the coordinates of the location where we would camp that night, then turned [...]
Is Your Corporate Culture Killing Innovation and Speed?
In the past few years, Cisco, Coca-Cola, GE, IBM, MasterCard and other large companies have begun to launch “internal startups”—teams of employees who are sheltered from corporate rules and [...]
Growth and Profitability from Outlier Customers
When you deal with the same types of customers, buying the same products and using them the same way, every day, it’s easy to be lulled into a smug confidence that you know everything you [...]
How to Learn More About Your Customers
When you want to gain insight into emerging customer needs and behaviors, the first solution you might think of is market research. But research can be costly, and it can take weeks to implement [...]
Six Obstacles That Stop Agility In Its Tracks
Are you struggling to make your company more agile? In my work with organizations in virtually every industry, I find that business agility – the ability to spot and capitalize on new [...]
Want breakthrough ideas? Look outside. WAY outside.
I recently met with the leaders of a highly successful company. Sales growth, which had been strong for years, was headed into negative territory. They were desperate to find the next “big idea” [...]
